"The author studies annuity rates in Chile and relates them with industry competition. He finds (1) that annuity insurance companies paying higher broker commissions paid lower annuity rates; and (2) a structural break of the long-run elasticity of annuity rates to the risk-free rate in 2001....

The Chilean evidence indicates the possibility of predicting future aggregate stock returns.Compared with naive prediction strategies, it is possible to predict returns with significantly more, success, using lagged dividend yields and lagged interest. Results are partly interpreted as evidence...

This article presents stylized facts regarding the behavior of the level and structure of interest rates in Chile. Some of the conclusions may be of general interest since:1) “Real” (CPI- indexed) interest rates are considered, which allows to analyze factors other than the expected...